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Fossil Fuels On Trial: Where The Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today

July 26, 2019 David Hasemyer, Insideclimatenews.org , , ,
A wave of legal challenges that is washing over the oil and gas industry, demanding accountability for climate change, started as a ripple after revelations that ExxonMobil had long recognized the threat fossil fuels pose to the world. Over the past few years: Two states launched fraud investigations into Exxon over climate change, and one has followed with a lawsuit. Nine cities and counties, from New York to San Francisco, have sued major fossil fuel companies, seeking compensation for climate change damages.

Militarized Fossil Capitalism Is The Problem; There Are Solutions

July 16, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. , , ,
"The Earth Is Not For Sale." That is the title of David Schwartzman's new book, written with his son Peter. Both are environmental scientists who have worked on climate change issues for a long time. Schwartzman says the problem is that right now the earth is for sale and it shouldn't be. He discusses what he calls "militarized fossil capitalism," and  explains why it is a fundamental problem driving the climate crisis. Schwartzman outlines the possible scenarios for the future, what needs to be done to have a chance for a positive outcome (he believes that is still possible) and how we get there. We also cover recent news and actions.

Direct Action Shuts Down Coal Infrastructure In Germany

June 24, 2019 Staff, Unicornriot.ninja , , , , ,
The marches from the Ende Gelände covered a fair amount of distance and stretched into the afternoon. As the marchers approached the train they were going to take to their destination, police turned them away from using transit, forcing them to begin a trek of several kilometers on foot. Police in riot gear pushed their way through the march at one point, which increased the feeling of tension in the crowd. The green and red “finger” combined during the journey, while the pink “finger” had reportedly already reached the site.

American Gov’t, NGOs Fuel And Fund Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests

June 20, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
HONG KONG — Protesters in Hong Kong attempted to storm the parliament on Tuesday in opposition to an amendment to the autonomous territory’s extradition law with mainland China. The protest’s messaging and the groups associated with it, however, raise a number of questions about just how organic the movement is. Some of the groups involved receive significant funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA soft-power cutout that has played a critical role in innumerable U.S. regime-change operations.

Charlottesville Divests From Weapons And Fossil Fuels

June 15, 2019 David Swanson, World Beyond War. , ,
On the evening of June 3, 2019, the City Council of Charlottesville, Va., voted to divest the funds in its operating budget from weapons dealers and fossil fuel producers. Here’s the resolution as passed by the City Council: PDF. The city has also committed to taking the same step with its retirement fund by this coming autumn. The proposal to do this was brought to the city in March by a coalition of groups called Divest Cville, which attended and spoke at city council meetings (see videos), held rallies, wrote letters, made flyers, bought ads, produced responses to possible objections, met with the City Treasurer, and presented a petition. David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, one of the organizations involved, said that combining weapons with fossil fuels was not just a matter of listing the two worst investments, but was a step intentionally taken to highlight the connections between the two industries.

Fracked Gas Is Not ‘Freedom Gas’ As Trump Administration Claims, But Failure Gas

June 7, 2019 Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org , , ,
"These projects aren't just associated with health and safety risks: if even a fraction of them come to fruition, they will condemn the planet to a future of climate chaos." A first-of-its-kind report released Wednesday by Food & Water Watch details the more than 700 new U.S. facilities that have been recently built or proposed for development "to capitalize off of a glut of cheap fracked gas," and the consequences for the planet and its inhabitants if these projects are allowed to continue.

Secretive Fossil Fuel Lobby Group Manipulated UN Climate Programs

April 30, 2019 By Mat Hope and Karen Savage, Truthout.org , , ,
A fossil fuel-backed industry group was able to influence the process behind the United Nations climate assessments for decades, using lobbyists and industry-funded scientists to manipulate international negotiations, a cache of recently discovered documents reveals. The documents include hundreds of briefings, meeting minutes, notes, and correspondence from the Global Climate Coalition (GCC). They were released Thursday by the Climate Investigations Center in collaboration with DeSmog and Climate Liability News.

Big Oil Is Set To Spend $5 Trillion On Fossil Fuels We Can’t Afford To Burn

April 24, 2019 Staff, Globalwitness.org , , ,
Our analysis found that all production from new oil and gas fields – beyond those already in production or development – is incompatible with reaching the world’s climate goals. Yet the oil and gas industry is set to spend $4.9 trillion (yes, trillion) over the next ten years on exploration and extraction in new fields. That’s an eye-watering amount of money to spend on fossil fuels we need to leave in the ground.

Edinburgh Science Festival To Ban Fossil Fuel Firm Sponsorship Deals

April 19, 2019 Brian Ferguson, Edinburghnews.scotsman.com ,
Organisers of the Edinburgh Science Festival are to impose a blanket ban on sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies - claiming the oil and gas sector is “not moving fast enough” to meet climate change targets. They will sever links with firms backing the 2019 event due to feeling “increasingly compromised” by the conflict between accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies and programming events scrutinising climate change. The move has been revealed days after activists in the “Science Unstained” campaign met organisers to protest about newly-announced sponsorship deals with ExxonMobil and Total for educational projects.

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Enlisting Police To Crack Down On Protesters

April 19, 2019 By Sarah Lazare and Simon Davis-Cohen, Inthesetimes.com , , ,
Researchers concluded in January that humanity has a hope, a 64 percent chance, of keeping the temperature rise below the international target of 1.5 degrees Celsius—if the phaseout of fossil fuel infrastructure begins now and every car, plane and power plant in existence gets replaced by a zero-carbon alternative at the end of its life span. “We are basically saying we can’t build anything now that emits fossil fuels,” said Christopher Smith of the University of Leeds, the lead researcher. Meanwhile, the multi-trillion-dollar fossil fuel industry is in the midst of an enormous infrastructure expansion.

Extinction Rebellion Calls On Edinburgh Science Festival To End Relationship With EDF Energy

April 5, 2019 Sean Bell, Commonspace.scot ,
This follows this week’s release of a new sponsorship policy by Edinburgh Science, the charity behind the Edinburgh Science Festival, which confirmed that it will now avoid accepting funds from “fossil fuel companies and their primary trade bodies,” effectively ending its prior financial relationship with organisations and companies such as Exxon, Total and the Scottish Oil Group. While welcoming the announcement, Extinction Rebellion Scotland highlighted on Twitter that the festival continues to be sponsored by EDF Energy, which they argued contravenes the festival’s own policy.

U.S. Banks Dominate Fossil Fuel Funding

March 21, 2019 By Erik McGregor. ,
Pete Sikora from NY Communities for Change spoke about the local pipeline fight against the Williams NESE Pipeline, that is part-funded by JP Morgan Chase, and Tom Ross, a local organizer with Sane Energy Project, and former investor with JP Morgan Chase gave sage advice to Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, and the public at large on how to move our money to a green energy fund called Green Century.

The Inevitable Death Of Natural Gas As A ‘Bridge Fuel’

March 6, 2019 By Justin Mikulka, Desmogblog.com ,
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently announced the city is scrapping plans for a multi-billion-dollar update to three natural gas power plants, instead choosing to invest in renewable energy and storage. “This is the beginning of the end of natural gas in Los Angeles,” said Mayor Garcetti. “The climate crisis demands that we move more quickly to end dependence on fossil fuel, and that’s what today is all about.” Last year America’s carbon emissions rose over 3 percent, despite coal plants closing and being replaced in part by natural gas, the much-touted “bridge fuel” and “cleaner” fossil fuel alternative.

Climate Crisis Requires Fundamental Social And Economic Changes

March 2, 2019 Simon Pirani, Roarmag.org , ,
To end our fossil fuel addiction we need a fundamental technological change — but this cannot happen without changing our social and economic systems. The bad news about climate change keeps coming: record heat levels in Australia in January, and in the UK in February; increasingly uncontrollable wild fires; shocking leaps in Arctic temperatures. The worst news of all is that the gulf between what scientists say needs to be done and what the international climate talks deliver keeps growing.

Controversial Pinelands Coal Plant To Shut Down Not Convert

March 2, 2019 Staff, Insidernj.com , ,
Long Branch, NJ — Clean Water Action sang the praises of today’s overnight news that the owner of the BL England (aka Beasley Point) power plant in Ocean City has decided to retire it instead of continuing with a controversial plan to try and convert if from dirty coal to equally problematic frack gas power. The decision is perhaps the last nail in the coffin for South Jersey Gas’ even more controversial proposed pipeline through the core forest of New Jersey’s Pinelands as the plant was the pipeline’s justification to exist and get approval from the Pinelands Commission.
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